American Lexicology, 1942-1973

Slang is a self-sufficient, subversive, oppositional subset of the English language. It has given a tongue, by no means inarticulate, to the marginal, the criminal and the dispossessed for at least half a millennium. But it is hard to pin down: even the etymology of the word 'slang' remains unsubstantiated. Perhaps inevitably it challenges concrete linguistic definition, remaining a source of argument: is it a full scale language or simply a lexis of synonymy. And what exactly constitutes a 'slang' word, what qualifies it for inclusion in that lexis? Whatever the 'truth' it remains a flourishing and endlessly self-inventive channel of communication. As a slang lexicographer of thirty years' experience,

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Regional Morphology in American English: Evidence from Dare

Hirshberg¹

1981

American Speech

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American Lexicology, 1942-1973

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José A. Sánchez Fajardo, Pejorative suffixes and combining forms in English (Studies in Language Companion Series 222). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. xvi + 229. ISBN 9789027210609.

José A. Sánchez Fajardo, Pejorative suffixes and combining forms in English (Studies in Language Companion Series 222). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. xvi + 229. ISBN 9789027210609.

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